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Uninstalling nVidia Drivers?

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I know the general procedure is to uninstall drivers, reboot into safemode, run driver cleaner, and then install the new ones. But its a little complicated. When I try to uninstall nVidia drivers, theres multiple drivers. Theres Audi, Display, Ethernet, Gart, IDE, and PCI system management drivers, all from nVidia. Do I have to uninstall all of them or just the display driver would be fine? Also I've never used driver cleaner before. I just downloaded the professional one. Is it a basic thing to do, as in 1 click and it'll do its thing or do I have to set it up and stuff? Anyhelp would be greatly appreciated!
 
Oh and I forgot to mention I'm trying to update my video card drivers. I have a Geforce 6800GT. Hope that helps!
 
Basically, just uninstall the video drivers only from Control Panel, reboot into safe mode, and use DC Pro to remove just the Nvidia listing...don't remove the Nforce drivers.
 
nvidia drivers are pretty good on how they overwrite everything and no conflict that I just install the new drivers over the old one.

ati catalyst on the other hand is a different story: it's wise to go through the entire uninstall, dc in safe and install exercise.
 
I haven't had any issues with just uninstalling the drivers via Control Panel, restart, install new driver

This goes for the Catalyst 3.x-4.x and Nvidia 66.xx drivers
 
I find that there's nearly always a performance gain if you take the time to do driver cleaner after uninstalling old drivers. Granted, that's my system.
 
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